Russian ⇄ English

запятнать v stresses
gen.	besmirch; blemish; blot; cloud (репутацию); imbrue; maculate; smirch; soil; speck; speckle; spot; tarnish; embrue; defile; flyblow; singe (репутацию); blur (репутацию); stain; sully; cover (позором); dirty (чью-либо честь); besmudge (Громовая Екатерина); blotch (The relations would be blotched Ostasheva Liudmila); bespeckle; bespot; bestain
Игорь Миг	cast aspersions
contempt.	smear (with something – чем-либо: The ambush of two Deputies shot in the head in Compton... Jubilant black people on the street, the cops are dying and no one is going to help them... One of the best men I know is black and his race smears him with this... This is common behavior of the North American pavement ape... (Twitter) ART Vancouver)
fig.	stigmatize
Gruzovik, inf.	catch at game of tag (pf of пятнать); brand (pf of пятнать); mark (pf of пятнать)
idiom.	put a damper (That little massage parlor incident might've put a damper on your moral authority. george serebryakov)
lit.	wither (GeorgeK)
Makarov.	attach a stigma to something (что-либо)
Makarov., sport.	put out (крикет, бейсбол)
obs.	bedye
relig.	dishonour
sport.	put out
uncom.	embrew

запятнать : 73 phrases in 10 subjects

American usage, not spelling	3
Business	1
Figurative	1
General	30
Idiomatic	1
Informal	1
Makarov	33
Politics	1
Proverb	1
Security systems	1